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We Lived Happily During the War - Soldiers Aim at Us

· The following version of this book was used to create the lesson plan: Kaminsky, Ilya. Deaf Republic. Graywolf Press, 2019.

· Deaf Republic is a collection of poems that is at times from the perspective of an unknown narrator and sometimes from the perspective of one of the characters in the poem.

·.The tense switches back and forth between present and past tense.

· In "We Lived Happily during the War," an unknown speaker says that when homes were bombed, people protested but it was too little too late.

· Around the speaker’s bed “America was falling invisible house by invisible house” (no page number).

· It was the sixth month of having a terrible leader in our country, we, a “country of money,” had lived contentedly through the war (no page).

· In Dramatis Personae, the speaker describes the characters that...

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